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This works the same way in almost any language. Numbers can be represented as decimal, octal, hexadecimal, binary, ... It's not anything special to C.
Thanks for pointing that out (: The blogpost explains how in learning C after years with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and Objective-C one discovers little things about CS that weren't visible before while working on a higher abstraction level.